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OVER SEVEN BILLIONs A YEAR.
Tho Enormous Number of Toothpioks Ground
Out of Maine Factory.

Tho Enormous Number of Toothpicks Ground
Out of 8 Maine Factory.
New York Mail and Express.
'sWhere do all the toothpicks come from9' in
quired a reporter of Cortlandtstreet dealer in
these useful articles this morning.
''From Maine. chiefly. Billions are turned
out in the little town OF Franklin alone, every
year."
"A Yankee invention, isn't it7n
Not exactly, but it owes it's growth to Yam
kee shrewdness. Mr.. Charles Forster, of
Franklin. is the leading toothpick manufact-
urer in the world. Before the war he was in
South America, where he saw a native whit
Ting out few toothpicks with hts knife. He
bought a few of these and sent thorn to his wife
as curiosity n:y. By some means, Paran Stevens:
some OF them and sent to Mr.. Forster
for a box. They were forwarded to him.
In less than month he had ordered gross.
in the country were using South American
whitfield toothpicks. Before this there was
hardly any demand in the country for tooth
picks. It wasn't many months before tho South
American toothpick began to geta national repu-
tation. Mr.. Forster emis rated to this ountry
and established toothpick agency here. The
their WRITINGS, and the picks grow worse and
worse. In the first years Of the business some
of them got rich whiting toothpicks."
'Why didn't Mr. Forster make them in this
country instead of sending far away for
themW
THAT is just what he did about twenty-five
years ago. he made his first toothplcks by
machinery. The first year he sold sixty-five
cases, $50, 00O picks in case, His last year
business amounted to 80, 900 cases-quite re-
spectacle increase. When Mr. Forster began the
business in this country he hired fellow to
turn a crank. and the fellow used to grind out
toothpicks one at a time. Finally he bought
engine of one-horse power and substituted it for
Young America. At his factory In Dixfield
few years ago he worked al engine of forty
horse power. Mr.. Forsters machinery is all
patented by himself He probably has spent $780,
600 on his patent in litiRations since he started
toothpick making"
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To Save Washing.
New York Graphic.

Nov
Tho outlandish fashion of wearing loud, fancy
coored shirts with white collars and cuffs, or
striped cuffs and collars with plain white shirts,
in vogue for several seasons and still prevalent
among calIow youths of horsey turn and would
be swells, was not set by the Prince OF Wales.
as SO many crack-brained imitators have en-
deayored to induce themselves to believe They
have simply violated and shocked good taste
without the shadow of = reasonable precedent.
This class of persons," explained dealer in
gents furnishing goods to correspondent. re-
Gently, ''are grievously mistaken. The white
collar and colored shirt style was given birth by
economical young man, who had taken
fancy for the nonce to coCred linen. You SEQ
we sell ready made colored shirts for low price
and throw in two collars and pair of cuffs
This economical young man bought such shirt
and 'trimmings.' 1t took him two days TO Eoil
the collars and cuffs. the latter being reversed
for tho second days wear. The shirt. in hia
idea. was still too clean TO put in the wash But
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A Test for Malaria.


A loving father. who at a summer resort last
season, had left behind him four beautiful
children, dead of diphtheria, said to THAT
hotel proprietor was as much murderer as if
he had shot my little ones Yes. dear SIR but
you. the guardian, onght to have been armed
and equipped against such foes. An hours in
telligent examination OF water supply and drain
age at proposed country home would in large
majority of cases prevent the risk of such catas-
trophe. and might be made before landlord
could object Take in the dressing bag an
ounce vial of saturated solution of permangan-
ate of potash. which any druggist will prepare
for . few cents, and put half dozen drops into
a tumbler OF the drinking water that is supplied.
IT 1t turns brown in hour, it is, broadly
speaking. unfit to drink; if not, it is not espe-
cally harmful If country hotels sewage sys-
tenn is confined to cesspoos within q hundred
take next train to a point further on. These
matters should force themselves on ones per-
sonal attention. quite much the under
takers bills that occasionally follow their neg
Lar
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ILLINOIS.
Cuttings from Correspondence and Clean
ings from Exchanges.

Cuttings from Correspondence and Clean
ings from Exchanges.
A diseased supposed to be Texas fever has
broken out among herd of cattle belonging to
A. G. Malone, Springfield and several
dying every day. The State authorities have
been notified.
The board of trustees of Carthage College ad-
journsc on Thursday. having raised about
SO. 900 among themselves for the college and
laid plans for securing further means Rev. A.
S Fitchthorn. of Gettysburg, Pa, was elected
TO the chair Of ancient languages.
The State board of health has succeeded in
expelling from the State w. III. Mosly, the In
dian herb man, and his troupe. and DR. S. T.
Lamereaux. the Indian medicine man. with his
band OF Indians and cowboys These men are
travelling vendors OF nostrums and are very
tensive operators
On Wednesday night. in Stockton township
10 Daviess county. q tornado. accompanied by
delugiug rain, blew down a new store building,
n Monmouth tobacco shed, number of smaller
buildings, fences, trees, grain, etc This is the
third time the township has been visited by q
destructive tornado within the last ten years.
Some days ago burglars entered the house Of
James Tally, wealthy farmer of Moweaqua
township. near Shelbyvile, and carried off be-
tween 81. 500 and SO, ZOO. The money was in
trunk which also contained from $4,000 to
Mr.. Tally was in Shelbyville and deposited the
coin in bank. Two men were required to
ry the money into the bank
News has been received of the death of the
Rev. John Wesley Lapham. Methodist minis
ter. which occurred at Stockton, Cal Consump-
ton the cause. His age was "a years. He
was q practicing physician, and during his resi-
dence in central Illinois was member of the
Illinois Conferences. He was captain OF Company
A. One hurdrsd-and- fifteenth Illinois Regi-
ment and was promoted to be major of the
same regiment
10 Springfield. Judge Gresham. by consent OF
NIL the parties interested, entered an order OF
foreclosure and sale in the suit of Samuel NJ
Dodd and others against the Carbondale Coal and
Coke Company. whose property is in jackson and
Williamson counties. The sale is to be- made by
the special master in chancery, with sixty days
notice, the notice to be made not earlier than
thirty days from the date of the order. The
price must aggregate not less than So, 900.
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Escaped from the Sheriff.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
CoRYDoN, July ia warrant was issued
from Pike county TO Sheriff Bence, Of this
county. for the arrest Of man named Van Blair,
on a charge OF assault and battery, with at
tempt to commit murder. Sheriff Bence
rested the man at DePauw, yesterday, and
brought him to this place, intending to take him
to Petersburg this morning. In some manner
the prisoner escaped from the sheriff. and that
official refugees to say how he did it. Bence has
let a number Of prisoners escape from him in a
very mysterious manner and has never made
any attempt to recapture them.
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A slight Mistake

Portfolio Of American Magazine
But that is not 80 bad as to think one is In
church when ono is at the play. My wife is the
daughter of q minister, and bad never been in \
theater until she came to Boston with me. and
was to meet her and our hostess at tho Park
Theater one night. By some mischance l was
late, and Hurried and disappointed. The two
ladies were ushered down what seemed to the
countrywoman and interminable aisle, to the
third row OF stalls from the 'front.' My wife, as
she sank into her seat, dropped her head at once
mont her companion gasped: Sara, what are
you going to do9" Take off my rubbers,' said
the quick-witted woman, abandoning her
prayers to clutch at q foot that was guiltless of
overshoen
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SOMETHING ABOUT rHEnMoMErE,Es
The Little Instruments to Which All Go in
Hot Weather Cannot Always be Trusted.

Hot Weather Cannot Always be Trusted.
New York Mail and Express.
During the hot spell there is no instrument
that is studied more carefully than the Their
is each day. and all continually consult these lit
tie glass tubes. These vary sometimes several
degrees at the same instant. Said a dealer in
thermometers to a reporter:
Thermometers are very curious instruments.
Sometimes find one that is all right at certain
points and at others it will be several degrees
Irregularities in the tube. The tubes are very
frequently imperfect. When the tube is too
large, of course. the registration is several de-
erees lower than it should be. Sometimes
the tube is too small and then
the mercury shoots up higher than it ought to.
The tubes have to be seasoned. This takes sew
eral months. When glass is new it changes ex-
pands, contracts and warps almost as badly as
green wood. Very often, after buying cheap
Thermometer. the customer has brought it back
and said it registered 100 degrees in the shade,
when the temperature was only 90. The best
thermometers are made in London. These I'm.
ported thermometers are however, very expen-
sive. Some very good ones are made in this
country at New Lebanon, n. T.. and at Roches-
ter"
"How are they nader was asked
s.The tube is blown to the size wanted the top
being left open. The bulb is then heated to ex-
pei the air. and while heated the open end is in
serted into some mercury. AS the tube cools
the mercury runs into the vacuum. The open
end is then sealed and the tube placed
scale. Then it is placed in water of known
temperature. and the point to which the mercu-
ry rises is marked. Several tests like this
made before the instrument is offered for sale"
How are Thermometers proved to be accu-
ratel"
There is a place at Harvard College for
testing them. They carefully examined at
different temperatures. and any variation is
marked certificate is given with every in
strument that is examined"
(which scale do you think is the best?"
1.-THE centigrade is the one think should be
generally adopted. For the of brewers there
is a thermometer about three feet long. with
bulb about two feet in length. The scale of this
is short and is only marked for few degrees
above freezing point. Another odd instrument
is of English make, and can be read in the dark.
The tube is filed with a green composition and
contains phosphorus. Spirit thermometers are
used for very cold climates, mercury congeals
at 80 degrees below zero. These cannot be used
to measure extreme heat, as above certain
temperature the liquid expands too fast it bolts
at 16O degrees For very high temperatures the
pyrometer takes the place OF the thermometer
The heat is measured by the expansion of metals,
and will accurately register up TO 700 degrees.
Febrile thermometers. for the Of physicians
very carefully made, and a certificate is sold
with them indicating their variations from per-
feet accuracy.
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Minor Notes.

Albert Smith, highly esteemed young man,
aged 10 years, was drowned in Rattlespake
creek, three miles west of Spencer, on Thurs
day night while bathing
The managing committees OF the old set
tiers meetings from the counties of Rush. Shell
by, Bartholomew and Johnson held confer
ence at Flat lRock, Rush county, the 18th
inst, and it was decided to hold union meet
ing Of the old settlers and soldiers of the four
counties at Flat Rock, on Aug. 10 and IL.
The first day will be set apart for the old set
tiers and the second for the soldiers
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saulr, he ran into the woods The woman gave
the alarm. aud over hundred men, armed
with guns and revolvers, started in pursuit of
the negro, and after searching all night ran the
fellow down about o'clock this evening The
negro said his name was j. e. Fowler. and that
he came from Iowa, where he had been serving
and careful watch is kept as fears are enter
tanned that attempt will be made to lynch
him. Mrs. 10 aes' terrible experience has COM
a total wreck
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Hotel Burned.

MAMMOTH Hot SPRINGS, Wy T., July 15-The
hotel at the Norris Geyser basin. National Park,
burned last night at o'clock, catching fire from
an attic chimney. Much OF the furniture, carpets
and silver was saved. Manager Walters tele-
graphs that he fed all tourists to-day, and will
have q temporary building for guests in three
days. there will be no interruption of travel
through the park. Next to the big hotel at this
point that at Norris the best in the park,
beng & three-story frame building, erected last
year The total loss is about $50. 600; insurance
small.
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Mine Fire Extineuished.

PITTsBURG July 1.-THE great subterranear
fire. which started from drivers lamp in the
Standard mine. at Mt. Pleasant. Pa, nearly
year ago, has at last surrendered, and the pit
is free of the flames, which licked up nearly
800 0GO worth of property. The extent of the
measures to overcome the conf1sgration can be
partially realized when it is stated that it was
found necessary to food fifty acres of under
ground workings. and allow the great body of
water to remain there for . month before the
fire was extinguished
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CHICAGO. July 1.-THE Hyde Park police
were notified last night that Mrs. Jones. the
wife OF n wood carver in the employ OF the Pull
man Car Company. had been outraged by a
negro. The woman returning 10 her home
from salaon with a pitcher of beer. about o
o'clock. when she accostsd by reero who
inquired the way to Michigan avenue. AS she
was directing him he seized her and dragged her
into a vacant lot, where he assaulted her
rhssatfrina her life IL she told anyone Of the as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-16
The English sparrow.

Theodore II. Mead. in American Magazine.
Many years ago we first made the acquaintance
OF the sparrow, AMI we were fascinated by his
saucy. contented drolery. 1t was in London,
and just outside the window within which
studies were supposed TO be carried on was a
leaden roof whereon could be observed at every
hour the domestic manners and social customs
of these restless little rascals. We never tired
OF their antics-their tempestuous love-makine,
their indefatigable housekeeping. their petuIant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-16
Inherently Improbable.

Somervilie Journal
A little Philadelphia girl was walking with
her father on the banks Of the raging Schuyl-
kill.
''Oh, father" said she, '.just SEQ how dirty the
water is
Yes" said her father. sadly 'If it were not
for the inherent improbabi,ity of the thing. I
should say that some anarchist had been taking
a hathn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-16
The Prince of Walls,

Albert Edward-Mother, around sandwich
which has reposed in my coat-tail pocket since
our
The Queen-OurN
Albert Edward-r-r r, the celebration. find
copy of the Times of recent date. Within
peal of it's mighty thunder find alluson to the
fact that looked every inch a king.
The Queen-What are you Civ? What OF it2
Albert Edward-This, me royal progenitor.
It aroused train Of thought. in which pict-
ured meself riding to Westminster on me
fftieth coronation anniversary, aged 40.
You're looking fine this morning, mother.
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AUBURN, N. Y, July 15-Joseph Barber &
Sons, manufacturers of wooden goods and car
pets. made an assignment this afternoon. They
are creditors % the firm of John Slade & CO., Of
New York which assigned last week. Chattel
mortgages were filed yesterday covering all the
stock IN the Barber wooden and carpet mill! No
schedule OF liabilities was filed with the assign
ment- 1t is said that the assets OF the firm will
cover the liabilities.
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1t Had Gone.
Wall Street News,

WaH Street News.
He sat on log the banks of an Arkansas
creek. when q traveller came along and saluted:
'Good-day. mister. Waiting for a rise2"
That's just what am waiting TO-" was the
reply.
Got a fat-boat up stream"
mo, sir I'm government engineer. Con-
gress has appropriated $4S 900 to improve this
river, and I'm waiting for rise so I can find
the stream. How long since you saw anything
of it2"
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A Bill Of Particulars.


- Gotham Child lat luxurious restaurant)-
What did you give that waiter S. for. pal
Pa-That was the amount of our bill.
u. C.-Did we eat that much2
Pa-No; what we had was worth about 25
cents.
G.. C.-But what was all the rest Of the money
for, then
Pa-That was for the privilege of looking at
the furniture, my boy.
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ARusiness View of Il.

Harper's Bazaar.
TChinese Sunday-school1
Teacher (readinel-.AnG Elijah the prophet
Do you know what prophet means2
Scholar-Yes, me know, veliy we'll.
Teacher surprised do You knowa Well.
what is it,
Scholar-Me buy sing e. cent sell fifteen
cent, plofit ten cent
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Saloon Blown Up with Dynamite.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
FAIRMoNT, July 16-This morning. at Ills,
the building on Main street, recently Irented by
Ira NJ. Smith for the purpose Of establishing
saloon in this place blown to pieces by a
heavy charge of dynamite. The building ad-
Joining, occupied by Steven King as a harness
shop, and the News Office, were considerably
shattered. Loss So, 900.
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Giving Him No show.

mo, Bobby" said his mother, 'one piece Of
pie is quite enough for you"
tits funny" responded Bobby, with an in
iured air. .syou say you are anxious that should
learn to eat properly, and yet you won't give me
a chance to practice ~
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Almighty Andover.

Macon Telegraph.
st. Peter-Who knocks?
Heathen-One whom the missionary has
snatched from the burning
st. Peter-What missionary
Heathen-One from Andover, Mass.
ST. Peter-Please take a seat for while on
the brush heap to the left of the gate. can't
tell until the Andover controversy is settled
whether you are saved or damned.
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HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The Right Size.

q little small sirg
Dealer-Plenty big enough to hold two. Miss.
Girl bushes, and buys one.
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That G. A. r.. Invitation to Cleveland.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SYRACUSE. N. Y, July 15.-The invitation Of
the Grand Army. Root Post of this city, to
President Cleveland to visit Syracuse as their
guest. turns out to-day to be a not very hearty
invitation. Though an effort has been inside to
suppress the news Of what was done and said at
the meeting last night. when the invitation was
ordered to be extended there were only eighteen
members present when the vote was taken, and
there strong opposition. The invitation was
finally carried through by bare majority.
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Heavy Loss at Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, July 15.-Fire broke out shortly
before o'clock to-day in the Maryland hominy
and coralne mills at the foot Of Frederick-strest
dock. and although the entire fire department.
was called ont, it was soon destroyed Tho dam
age is estimated at $4,000 machinery and
stock. The flames communicated to three ad-
joining warehouses belonging to Enoch Pratt,
and occupied by the Gambrill Manufacturing
Company for the storage of wheat, -four and
barrels, which were almost entirely destroyed.
The fire then crossed an alley and took hold of
the large roller flour mill of the Gambrill Manu-
featuring Company, the upper part of which
was burned and the lower part badly damaged
by water. The damage to the Gambrill compa-
ny is estimated at fully 5000. 900. The buildings
belonging to Mr. Pratt were damage about &c..
600, and those occupied by the hominy and
coraline company, belonging to j. Corner, about
$4,000. The insurance is not known.
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Poor Lot of Men in Georgia.

Poor Lot of Men In Georgia.
Gainesville (Ga.) Courant.
How does it happen that there are so many old
maids among the school teachers 2" asked a
porter of a teacher the other day.
Because school teachers are, as q rule, wom-
en- of sense; and no woman will give up $50
position for $40 man." was the reply.
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Michael Cunnineham's Estate.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. July 15-The large estate of
Michael Cunningham, the wealthiest farmer of
this county, who died few weeks ago, has been
settled without administration. All the heirs
were of age and they-eight children and the
widow-met this week and divided up the
tate, which amounted to 100000, $4,000 OF
which was in cash, SAC 600 in notes. secured by
frat mortgage on real estate, and the remainder
in real estate. The real estate is about 1, 100
acres of real estate in farming lands in this (Da
viess) county. A strange feature of the case was
that after Cuuningham's death $40, 900 in cash
Of the family knew anything Of the money
ar the house until some time after the old mans
death.
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There's nothing at all in the paper to-day"
Said he with man aggrandzement-
"Why, dear" said his wife, you can't mean what
you say,
There's lovely dry-goods advertisement"
-summerviile journal.
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he had run ont or the collars and cuffs to match.
so on the third day ne pieced out with white ones
of which he had fair supply. And that's just
how this style originated.
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Steamship News

NEW YoEK, July l5.-Arrivsd: Saale, from
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Fire In q Brewery.

PHILADELPHIA, July 15--Shortly after 8
o'clock this morning, fire, caused by spontane-
GUS combustion of malt. broke ont in the second
story of the old brewery building of the Louis
Bergdoll Brewing Company. at Twenty ninth and
Poplar streets. The fire gained great Roadway
at once, owing to the combustible nature of the
stock, and in a few minutes the entire old build
ing was afame. The private fire brigade of the
brewery, with the aid of the city fremen. did eff
fective work. and confined tho fire to the build
ing in which it originated. It was at one time
fea-ed that all the buildings of the brewery
would be destroyed. No one about tho place
seemed to know how much stock was in the
burned building or what the pecuniary damage
to the building was but far could be learn ed
the loss will be BIS, 900; $40, 900 the stock,
and $75, 900 on the building.
. The Beredol Brewing Company carried an in
surance of SIS, 900 on machinery and buildings
and $115.500 on floating stock. placed in some
sixty cQmpapiaa.